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Amotissé week thirty-nine

22/12/2020

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Check it twice!

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Last minute Christmas list making!
Share your wish list with us...make it naughty & nice, wacky & wild, mindful, fun and creative.
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Amotisse week nine

26/5/2020

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​Make a list of all the things you did that you wouldn't have done if isolation 2020 never happened.
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​Last week we visited odour.
​This week it's all about 'touch'.

How does your world feel right now?
Set the timer to 15 minutes and free write continuously on this theme.
​I’ve been feeling distracted lately. I often welcome distraction, as it is a state in which interesting things can happen. Sometimes distraction is uncomfortable, when we don’t know where we are at.
What distracts you? What sensations does it evoke? How do you survive distractions?
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​This was part of an exercise and reflection in a poetry course I've been enjoying through futurelearn.com
Check out this interesting art/poetry concept,
http://www.valerielaws.com/quantum-sheep---a-haik-ewe.html
What do you think of this idea?
What role does randomness play in your writing?
Can you imagine a random writing exercise to share?
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Amotisse week seven

12/5/2020

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As we continue our exploration of playful wordsmithing, it's time to discover and dabble in a little poetry.

​Chinese portrait – if I was…

  • an animal
  • a colour
  • a sin
  • a painting style
  • a time of the day
  • a drink
  • a fabric
  • a mythological character
  • a flower
  • a public building
  • a vegetable
  • a fruit
  • a dance
  • a town
  • a writer
  • a country
  • a piece of furniture
  • an object
  • a natural phenomenon
  • an emotion
  • an activity
  • a monster
  • a song
  • an artist
  • a spice
  • a sport
  • a historical year
  • a dessert
  • a meal
  • a movie
  • one of the 4 elements
  • a verb
  • an adjective
  • a jewel
  • one of the 5 senses
  • a sound
  • a superhero
  • a famous person
  • a month
  • a day of the week
  • a landscape
  • movie genre
  • school subject
  • high tech object
  • part of a house 
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​Cento

I am currently enjoying a 3 week free poetry course with www.futurelearn.com and through this discovered a new type of poem called a cento, also known as a collage or patchwork poem.  A cento is made with lines from other poems to create a new poem.  It is like a form of appropriation and because we are quoting only one line at a time, we are not infringing copyright.
There are surely many ways to go about it; however, we will experiment with a short two-line cento. 
  1. Find two poems that you like.
  2. Choose two lines, one from each poem.
  3. Place them together how you like, use a theme if you want but it doesn’t have to make sense, have a play around and see what you come up with
  4. Make sure you cite the title, author and source of each poem.
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​Cinquain

This is a little poem of five lines (from French, cinq = 5) from what I have discovered there are a few different ways to write a cinquain.  The following format focuses on a central theme, matching tenses and point of view and specific numbers of syllables per line as below:
  1. 2 syllables
  2. 4 syllables
  3. 6 syllables
  4. 8 syllables
  5. 2 syllables
The second, (above), I found in an old school textbook. 
Follow the pattern or instructions to make your own cinquains. 
Which do you prefer?
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Amotisse week four

20/4/2020

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This week it's all about lists.
Lists are marvelous things and provide endless fodder for all kinds of writing. Answer them quickly or take your time to ponder.
This is only the beginning!


​In a time before internet, social media and blogging, Victorians liked to amuse themselves by playing parlour games, one of which was questionnaires. These were recorded in a confession album and some became quite famous, like this one by the French writer Marcel Proust. (Have a look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnaire if you are interested in Proust's responses)

Here is Proust’s Questionnaire:
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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5. Which living person do you most admire?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is your current state of mind?
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9. On what occasion do you lie?
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11. Which living person do you most despise?
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it
    be?
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what
    would it be?
21. Where would you most like to live?
22. What is your most treasured possession?
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24. What is your favourite occupation?
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
26. What do you most value in your friends?
27. Who are your favourite writers?
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
31. What are your favourite names?
32. What is it that you most dislike?
33. What is your greatest regret?
34. How would you like to die?
35. What is your motto?
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​Books are inspiring. The title of this one caught my eye and will be the working title for list number two. With the help of a friend, Esther works through the list of her fears, facing them one at a time. There is lots to love about this quirky story, though more importantly, this young Australian author is addressing mental health in all it's forms.
Learn more here 
http://krystalsutherland.com/
Most of us are scared of something, many of us have phobias of some description. Make your list of worst nightmares. Esther had 50, one for almost every week of the year. How many will you have?
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I have written so many lists over the years, some quite ordinary, others more creative. Here are two from 2008 I believe.
Use the list titles to write your own.
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What to bring to a creative writing workshop

Bring hopes and desires but leave any expectations under the mat. Bring all your senses and something precious. Strange objects and weird photos are handy. Fountain pens make writing feel special…bring different ones in case you don’t know which colour to choose. Bring paper or a notebook, scissors and glue, a scarf to keep your neck warm, something delicious to share and a favourite teacup. Bring a lucky charm. Bring your own writing to read or someone else’s, an old book, some music and a candle. Bring plenty of answers and a few questions.

Things to do while watching a sunset
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Listen to a man playing bagpipes.
Marvel at the wonder of it all.
Stare at the horizon.
Wish you could do this everyday.
Search for dust trails.
Sigh.
Say a little prayer.
Hum.
Write a list of things to do while watching a sunset.
Collect something from nature.
Hug a tree.
Close your eyes and see what smells you recognise.
Do a little dance.
Sip some sweet tea or wine.
Smile like an idiot.
Read some poetry.

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30 questions

24/2/2020

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Here is some list fun via Pip at http://meetmeatmikes.com/30-questions-answers/

Pass it on!

30 questions and answers


1. Who are you named after?
No one

2. Last time you cried?
Last week, today?
Some recent sappy book/movie weepiness

3. Do you like your handwriting?
Sure do.

4. What is your favourite meat?
Groovy veggie chic

5. Longest relationship?
9 years

6. Do you still have your tonsils?
Yes

7. Would you bungee jump?
Nope

8. What is your favourite cereal?
Crunchy clusters

9. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Yes

10. Do you think you’re strong?
Figuratively speaking...

11. Favourite ice cream?
Chocolat

12. What is the first thing you notice about a person?
Their energy

13. Football or rugby?
Neither

14. What colour trousers are you wearing?
I’m not.

15. Last thing you ate?
Mushroom and broccoli stroganoff

16. What are you listening to?
The cat purr

17. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be ?
Deep red

18. What is your favourite smell?
Rain, sandalwood, patchouli, lavender, frangipani

19. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Nat

20. Hair colour?
Dark brown usually dyed red

21. Eye colour?
Blue

22. Favourite foods to eat?
Cheese and olives, laksa

23. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings

24. Last movie you watched?
Woman at war
Sing Street

25. What colour shirt are you wearing?
A many coloured patterned dress

26. What is your favourite holiday?
Camping, road trip, exploring

27. Beer or wine?
Wine

28. Night owl or morning person?
Hoot hoot

29. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
So many places! Though not sure if I have a forever place...

30. Favourite day of the week?
Friday...the weekend begins.

Check out more list inspiration here https://pin.it/8J6ya63

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August-aout

27/8/2019

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FEELING...
Overwhelmed
Over thinking
Over invested
Over emotional
Over acting
Over.
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Not experiencing or sharing my finest moments lately. So many emotional outbursts from uncontrollable sobbing to desperate verbal showers...usually at moments when I’d rather be cool calm collected competent professional.
Feeling ANGRY is so foreign.
There is nothing comfortable about it.
I like my creative positive me better.
Time to revive myself and get my sparkle back.
Serious nurturing required, no quick fixes, simple effort action motivation mindfulness and posterior shove. Time to enjoy spring flowers and make more lists!
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Finir et recommencer...

20/1/2017

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I often find the end and beginning of a year to be a combination of happy and sad, a little like a wake or a farewell. There is joy and I celebrate, yet can't help feeling a certain emptiness, sadness, a sense of in between.
It's a time when my inner philosophe gets down to pondering, wondering...
It's a time i like to be with special people, enjoying simple pleasures, a time for reflection.


As for resolutions, my lists of hopes and dreams and wishes seems to grow rather than diminish and as long as life continues to inspire and overwhelm me as it does, I consider these lists with frustrated excitement because I'll never live long enough to achieve it all!
Though I will live hard trying!

(Even if I seem pretty relaxed most of the time!).
It's the journey that counts.



I am a creative and practical list maker. I rediscover old ones and laugh at how similar they are to my new ones.
(Check out some of my lists here http://listography.com/metissagesdecoeur)

I feel 2017 is going to be an 'ing' year;

reading walking creating eating discovering waiting exploring laughing writing dreaming dancing sleeping observing wondering meandering learning cooking playing sharing crying tasting listening...the list goes on,
but mostly just being.
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    For me, it seems there is not much difference between wondering and wandering. It has always helped me  find inspiration.  Creative dabbling is good for the soul, I couldn't imagine life without it and  often surprise myself by what I come up with.

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